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Sunday, 23 April 2023

Linguistic Archaeology: A Cognative Bias Test

 Want to do a cognative bias test? create twenty fantasy words & names you think would represent the forces of evil and work out which letters occur in the most words (number of words with A, B,...) and compare them to the global linguistic map.


Fictional Villain Names
1. Karlok
2. Harvat
3. Eizun
4. Malac
5. Qotar
6. Ikaron
7. Shamad
8. Lochaw
9. Umek
10. Vaered
11. Togg
12. Eimdak
13. Prodar
14. Zarjo
15. Bharj
16. Vastar
17. Eithnas
18. Widder
19. Naaz
20. Cebraj

Popularity of Use
A      %     E     %      I      %     O      %       U        %
16 80%    6 30%     5 25%     7  35%       2   10%

B      %     C     %      D      %     F      %       G        %
2  10%     3 15%      5 25%      0   0%        1    5%

H      %     J     %      K      %     L      %       M        %
5  25%      3 15%     4  20%     3 15%       4   20%

N      %     P     %      Q      %     R      %       S        %
4  20%     1   5%       1    5%     10 50%     3   15%

T      %     V     %      W      %     X      %       Y        %
5  25%     3 15%      2   10%     0   0%        0     0%

Z      %
3 15%


Popularity of use
80% A:
50% R, A:
35% O, R, A:
30% E, O, R, A:
25% T, H, D, I, E, O, R, A:
20% N, K, M, T, H, D, I, E, O, R, A: Ikaron, Eimdak,
15% Z, V, S, L, J, C, N, K, M, T, H, D, I, E, O, R, A: Zarjo, Vastar, Eithnas, Naaz, Karlok, Harvat, Malac, Shamad, Vaered,
10% W, B, U, Z, V, S, L, J, C, N, K, M, T, H, D, I, E, O, R, A: Widder, Cebraj, Bharj, Lochaw, Eizun, Umek,
5% P, Q, G, W, B, U, Z, V, S, L, J, C, N, K, M, T, H, D, I, E, O, R, A: Togg, Prodar, Qotar,
0% X, Y, F


Conclusion: my cognative bias will probably be towards people with names and language originating in the A-R-O linguistic subgroup. For me they will be deemed unpleasant sounding.

A-R-O subgroup                Sex          %        Dev. Chain
Cognative test - villain names       80%     (A; R; O; E)
StarTrek Cardassians                     71%     (A; R; O; E; L; N)
Tree                                         60%     (A; R; O; E; T)
Hungarian                           M          58%     (A; R; O; L; E)
• Wheel                                     51%     (A; R; O; L; K)

If we assume that auditory discrimination is genetic, then we can distinguish between neanderthal, human, denisovan by the sounds they would find unpleasant.

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